How to install Chef Development Kit(ChefDK)?

The Chef development kit contains all you need to develop and test your infrastructure, built by the awesome Chef community. Its Chef Developer tool.

Platform – Linux RHEL

Download Chef Development Kit(ChefDK)

# Download Package URL from https://downloads.chef.io/chefdk/2.5.3
$ sudo -s
$ cd /opt/
$ yum install wget -y
$ wget https://packages.chef.io/files/stable/chefdk/2.5.3/el/7/chefdk-2.5.3-1.el7.x86_64.rpm

Install Chef Development Kit(ChefDK)

$ rpm -Uvh chefdk-2.5.3-1.el7.x86_64.rpm

warning: chefdk-2.5.3-1.el7.x86_64.rpm: Header V4 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 83ef826a: NOKEY
Preparing...                          ################################# [100%]
Updating / installing...
   1:chefdk-2.5.3-1.el7               ################################# [100%]
Thank you for installing Chef Development Kit!

Verify Chef Development Kit(ChefDK) Quick way

$ chef -v
Chef Development Kit Version: 2.5.3
chef-client version: 13.8.5
delivery version: master (73ebb72a6c42b3d2ff5370c476be800fee7e5427)
berks version: 6.3.1
kitchen version: 1.20.0
inspec version: 1.51.21

Verify Chef Development Kit(ChefDK) Detailed way

$ chef verify
[WARN] This is an internal command used by the ChefDK development team. If you are a ChefDK user, please do not run it.
Running verification for component 'berkshelf'
Running verification for component 'test-kitchen'
Running verification for component 'tk-policyfile-provisioner'
Running verification for component 'chef-client'
Running verification for component 'chef-dk'
Running verification for component 'chef-provisioning'
Running verification for component 'chefspec'
Running verification for component 'generated-cookbooks-pass-chefspec'
Running verification for component 'fauxhai'
Running verification for component 'knife-spork'
Running verification for component 'kitchen-vagrant'
Running verification for component 'package installation'
Running verification for component 'openssl'
Running verification for component 'inspec'
Running verification for component 'delivery-cli'
Running verification for component 'git'
Running verification for component 'opscode-pushy-client'
Running verification for component 'chef-sugar'
.................................../opt/chefdk/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/2.4.0/gems/chef-provisioning-aws-3.0.2/lib/chef/resource/aws_route53_record_set.rb:48: warning: constant ::Fixnum is deprecated
cannot load such file -- fog
.......
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Verification of component 'fauxhai' succeeded.
Verification of component 'kitchen-vagrant' succeeded.
Verification of component 'openssl' succeeded.
Verification of component 'delivery-cli' succeeded.
Verification of component 'test-kitchen' succeeded.
Verification of component 'git' succeeded.
Verification of component 'berkshelf' succeeded.
Verification of component 'chefspec' succeeded.
Verification of component 'knife-spork' succeeded.
Verification of component 'inspec' succeeded.
Verification of component 'tk-policyfile-provisioner' succeeded.
Verification of component 'opscode-pushy-client' succeeded.
Verification of component 'chef-dk' succeeded.
Verification of component 'chef-sugar' succeeded.
Verification of component 'chef-client' succeeded.
Verification of component 'generated-cookbooks-pass-chefspec' succeeded.
Verification of component 'chef-provisioning' succeeded.
Verification of component 'package installation' succeeded.